Composing-stick



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ROBERT STOWE ROBSON, OF OAMBRIDGEPORT, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS,TO HIMSELF, AND JOHN LOUGHREY, OF EAST OAM- BEIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS.

COMPOSING-STICK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,677, dated March 4,1884.

Application filed February 3, 1883. (No model.)

dlesex, of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new anduseful Improvement in Printers7 ComposingSticks; and4 I dohereby declarethe same to be described in the following specification and representedin the accompanying drawings, of Which- Figure l is a top view, Fig. 2 aside eleva tion, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal and median section,.of acomposing-stick7 7 provided with my invention, the nature vof which isdened in the claim hereinafter presented. Fig.l 4 is an end View of thesaid stick.

The troughed portion or type-receiver of the stick (shown at A) is ofthe ordinary form. and construction, it being composed not only of ametallic plate, a part, c, of which is bent up at a right angle to theremainder d, but of an end piece or abutment, e, the latter beingarranged at one end of the plate and recessed or grooved to receive suchend. O11 the inner surface of the turned-up part c there is a scale, C,of inches and twelfths of inches. l Within the receiver A is theadjustable right-angular gage D, which rests on the bottom of thereceiver and clasps it at its outer edge, in manner as shown in Figs. 2and 4. The said gage also bears against the inner side of the turneduppart c. From the middle of the part f of the gage a screw, E, extendsrearward through a standard, F, erected on and fixed to the bottom ofthe receiver. This screw does not screwinto the standard, but engageswith a nut, G, arranged within the standard, or a slot, h, made throughit, and a little wider than the nut. The screw E on its top is fiat, andhas in it .a series of conic recesses or notches, z', each being adaptedto receive and fitto the conica-l point or lower end of a clampscrew,II, that is screwed down into the standard. The notches in the top ofthe screw are at equal distances apart-that is to say, each notch at itscenter is a quarter of an inch from the center of each neXt adjacentnotch. The series of notches with the pointed clampscrew are for quicklydetermining the positions of the gage for standard distances of it fromthe abutment. The adjusting-nut G is y 'stop to prevent end wisemovement of the gage should the clampscrew accidentally become lloosenedin a notch. v

By having the slot inthe standard F about double the width of the nut G,the said nut can easily be moved away from either vertical side of theslot, so as not to interfere with l the adjustment of the gage by theclamp-screw. When the adjustment is to be made by the nut, theclamp-screw is tobe supposed to be out of engagement with a notch of thescrew of the gage, the nut in such case being turned so as to bearagainst one side of the slot. After the adjustment may have been made bythe nut, the clamp-screw may be set down so as to bind the gage inposition. The nut is notto bear at the same time against both sides ofthe standard, but to be revoluble on the screw and movable with such inthe standard, to facilitate the engagementV of the clampscrew H with oneof the notches in the screw E. The scale is necessary to enable the gageto be adjusted to distances intermediate ofthe main or primary divisionsof it, which are equal in distances apart to the centers of the notchesin the screw. Having adjusted the gage to any of the subdivisions of thevscale byv means of the nut, as described, the clampscrew may be used inconjunction with the nut to hold the gage in position.

A composing-stick constructed as described has advantages over thesticks as heretofore made and used.

I claim-n g The type-receiver provided with the slotted standard and thenut and pointed clampscrew, adapted thereto as described, in combinationwith the adjustable gage having the screw furnished with notches andextended from it through the standard and nut, and to operate therewithand with the clamp-screw as explained.

ROBERT STOWE ROBSON.

Vitnesses:

R. II. EDDY, E.- B. PRATT.

